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10. Preferences & logistics

The constraints the programme has to live inside. Answers here override anything ideal — a perfect four-day split is worthless to someone with three hours a week and a set of adjustable dumbbells.

10.1 Availability

10.1 last question is the safety net

pref_minimum_week defines the deload-by-life plan. Write it into the programme as a named fallback week from the start, so a bad week is a documented option rather than a failure.

10.2 Where and with what

10.3 Style

Take pref_avoid seriously

An exercise the client dislikes has a compliance rate close to zero, whatever its merits. Almost every training stimulus has a substitute they will actually do.

10.4 Communication

10.5 Practical


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